French Territories To Go To Polls
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JEW CALEDONIANS will go to the polls on July 9 to elect a new v Territorial Assembly. There are 174 candidates for the 35 seats, he main parties are the Union Caledonienne (Nationalist) and the iNR, President de Gaulle’s ruling party in France.
PlM’s Noumea correspondent says that over the last few years le UNR has come “perilously close” to the Union Caledonienne in some t its political planks. Among other things it is calling for a drastic curtail icnt of Parisian rule in New Caledonia, and it has been fighting vigorously )r the introduction of a second smelting company, preferably foreign, to Dmbat the monopolistic Societe le Nickel. “These two ideas, of course, re regarded as pure heresy by the French UNR,” our correspondent Ids.
French Polynesian elections for a new Territorial Assembly will be eld on September 3.